I had the opening lines about the flames. I read them to Charley, and he started spitting out lines faster than I could type them.

I picked up a guitar that was tuned to open G from a previous recording project and started riffing on a G7 voicing that sounded cool to me. The combination of decidedly major-feeling melodic elements and more bluesy

I had the opening lines about the flames. I read them to Charley, and he started spitting out lines faster than I could type them.

I picked up a guitar that was tuned to open G from a previous recording project and started riffing on a G7 voicing that sounded cool to me. The combination of decidedly major-feeling melodic elements and more bluesy ones seemed to fit this song. The song evolved into a meditation on the multi-faceted natures of the elements. The guitar part was played on my Martin 000-28 Norman Blake signature model, in Open-G tuning with the capo on the 3rdfret.

The banjo is a 1922 Gibson GB six-string banjo. It has an enormous 14-inch head, and sounds like it comes from very distant time, which it sort of does. I recently got the banjo from @retrofret in New York. It’s so much fun to play